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AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
Volume 55, Issue 2, Pages 212-233Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/aehr.12069
Keywords
anthropometric; growth; inequality; public health; nutrition; standard of living
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- Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada
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Soldiers born during the late nineteenth century were taller in Australia than in Canada. A widening of the gap for those born in the 1890s supports the more optimistic interpretation of Australia's 1890s depression and is consistent with the 'hazardous growth' hypothesis of an inverse relationship between economic change and public health. The rural-urban stature gradient was steeper in Australia although Canada had greater stature inequality in all other dimensions. Native-born soldiers were taller than the British-born in both countries. We see no evidence of selective migration effects that would imply feedback from stature to growth.
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